This is what my group and I created for the protest project. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the first day of this as I was off sick so without me, they did an amazing job coming up with the idea and concept which they then outlined the induvial tasks so each of them created two pieces each to make up the zine and I was tasked with creating the 2nd and 3rd slides of the presentation which was the information of what are zines and how they aid protest.
- Zines originated as small-scale DIY efforts — many with an anti-authoritarian message.
- Small-circulation, self-published, often inexpensive or free.
- Provide a vehicle for ideas, expression, and art.
- They can be traced back to the 1930s, originally called ‘fanzines’ as they were created by fans of science-fiction.
- In the 70s and 80s zines became adopted by the punk scene to find a way around mainstream music journalism and have their voices heard.
- They have been used to aid protest for multiple communities like Women and Queer people as they were used to discuss identities, sexuality, sexual health information, to share ideas, announce events and document everything.
This is the 2nd slide which I wrote and presented to everyone. The 3rd slide was what we are protesting and why? Which I also wrote and presented.
- We are protesting the hypocrisy, incompetence and inadequacy of our world leaders.
- In recent years we as an age group have started to experience the hypocrisy with the people that have meant to be guiding us and supporting us.
- We experience this in different ways like over lockdown when people in power willfully ignoring and breaking the rules put in place.
- We feel the need to express our opinions about something that effects everyone except the ones in power.
Here are the photographs of the zines we printed off double sided to make it less bulky and smooth, one side was the poster that was created and the other the induvial different pieces.
Below you can see the zine when it’s folded up with the slit cut in the middle to help it lie better, you can flip through the pieces like a book. We made multiple copies so we could pass them round during the presentation to help people understand better.
This is my ruff notes I made to help present.
This is the digital file of the zine we printed it off and made the zines from it.
This is the PowerPoint that we created that everyone wrote different slides and presented. I also presented the last slide but didn’t write it.